IDU: Daily Internal Displacement Flows for Namibia

Daily updated provisional data on new internal displacements in Namibia caused by conflicts and disasters, provided by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre. The dataset focuses on displacement 'flows' and offers initial assessments, with final validated estimates available in the annual Global Internal Displacement Database. It was last updated on 2026-05-15.

Use Cases

• Monitor daily displacement trends based on the event-driven, provisional data updates.
• Analyze conflict or disaster impact based on the reported flows of internally displaced persons.
• Cross-reference provisional IDU data with validated annual GIDD stock data for longitudinal analysis.

Strengths

• Updated daily, providing timely event data.
• Sourced from the authoritative Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
• Covers both conflict and disaster-induced displacements.

Limitations

• Data is provisional and requires careful preprocessing to avoid double-counting, as noted in the description.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)

Collection Method

Aggregated from various publishers or sources for initial assessments.

Time Range

Event data reported since the beginning of 2025.

Freshness

Updated daily; last updated 2026-05-15.

Geography

Namibia